Can anyone suggest any reasons why you shouldn't use GPS or DME to lead your turns when approaching a fix, such as an IAF, on a non-GPS approach? (Meaning that you don't wait for complete reversal of the nav instrument.) The AIM has a couple of requirements for a "complete reversal" of...

When I was young I got my license the week I turned 18. I left flying when I left my first wife. I would like to resume flying, but want to focus on IFR simulation (most cost effective) at home training before beginning actual flight training. Any advice would be appreciated to help me develop a...

Flew my first GPS approaches this morning... Wow!!! Easy and precise! I was flying a 1997 C182S with King KLN 94 GPS and UPSAT MX 20 moving map display. The moving map has a lot of lag during a turn, but fly the OBS and you go right where you are supposed to.

Okay, I've been watching the transition to glass cockpits in GA aircraft. Clearly, the cost savings and simplification that comes from integration is neat, and the reliability of an all-electrical system is (probably) going to mean more safety for all of us. But one thing bugs me -- the tapes. I...

Saw on AvWeb that the preliminary file on the Hendricks King Air crash that spawned much discussion here has been posted: http://ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20041104X01760&key=1 For reference, here is the approach plate: http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/0411/05648L30.PDF My take-away:

I fly out of Palo Alto, CA, and I have never heard an IFR clearance read over ground whose route section did not start "when able, right turn to 060 with 1 mi of the airport, radar vectors san jose, v334 sunol ..." My clearance starts out this way whether I file a flight plan to the east, north, or...

A few days ago there was a thread here discussing how to make use of digital NACO approach plates on a PDA. The context was that a pilot could download and print fresh current charts for the primary airport(s) and alternate(s), and have charts for other airports available on a PDA for use in the...

I know the aim para 5.4.7 says that aircraft approach categories are based on 1.3 times the stall speed in the landing config at max certificated gross landing weight (comes from far 97.3 (b). However I know I have read somewhere, perhaps the aim or a far, something along the lines that where the...

Took & passed my checkride (first try) yesterday. Here's the extended narrative. Paragraphs enclosed in are explanatory for the non-aviators who will recieve this. My ride was scheduled for 1PM at MWC. I'd been asked in advance to plan a cross-country IFR flight of at least 200nm; I chose...

Notice our DOT buddy Norm Mineta may be the biggest problem of all regarding air safety http://www.womenswallstreet.com/WWS/article_landing.aspx?titleid=1&articleid=711 Mineta is mentioned on page 6 of this very disturbing article Political Correctness is going to be America's demise no doubt...

How do you get clearances from a non-towered field in Canada? Do they use RCO/GCO or void-times like in the US? Are pop-up clearances used?

I was thinking about a cessna 340A Any insight out there ? SK

What's the point of the CVO NDB 17? It's an off-airport NDB approach to a runway that also has ILS, VOR and GPS approaches, all with lower minimums. Like all but one other approach (a GPS approach from the south) it has a missed approach that takes you to an intersection hold about 9 miles to the...

In his book "WeatherFlying," Captain Bob Buck offers this advice: First, fly from good weather to good weather; ceilings should be 1000 feet or higher, tops 7000 feet or lower. Takeoff and landing, of course, are in VFR conditions. Second, bad weather to good weather...take off into an overcast,...

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I am an electronics engineer and I though a good project would be to build an aircraft tranceiver. Has anyone got any good schematics or ideas ? Thanks s

Hi all, Question: take a look at the VOR Rwy 28 approach at Marshall Brooks field (RMY). I've filed IFR to airports where the VOR IAF happened to be the VOR which was no problem, I'd just have that VOR be the last fix in the route box on flight plan form. In RMY's case, the IAF appears to be...

The ODP out of MMK for runway 36 reads, "climbing left turn to 1800 via 325° bearing from MMK NDB before proceeding on course". It seems to me that the easiest way to fly that with a GPS would be to create a user waypoint which is a 325 bearing, 20 (or whatever) mile offset from MMK NDB and insert...

Yesterday I flew two approaches with my GNS 430, the RNAV (GPS) RWY 03 at KCHO, and the RNAV (GPS) RWY 24 at KROA. In both cases, the 430 reported "Approach Not Active" just s I reached the FAF (JAGAG at CHO and HIBAN at ROA), and stopped sequencing. I am quite certain that I activated both...

I am reviewing the requirements for a commercial pilots license. There are two that are perplexing me. I ask it on the IFR forum simply because it is the one I am most familiar with and folks here seem ver FAR knowledgable (sorry if this is not the best place for it). Part 61.129 (Aeronautical...